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12/11
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Mikes, George, 1912-1987; Hamm, Manfred
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Topic: Taverns (Inns)
Timbs J Club Life Of London With Anecdotes Of The Clubs, Coffee Houses & Taverns Of The Metropolis During The 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries Vol 1 1866
Topics: Timbs J Club Life Of London With Anecdotes Of The Clubs, Coffee Houses & Taverns Of The...
Topic: London (England) -- Commerce
Anonymous. By D. Morier Evans. Cf. Halkett & Laing
Topics: Coffeehouses, Stock exchanges
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Dec 2, 2011
12/11
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Timbs, John, 1801-1875; Timbs, John, 1801-1875. Clubs and club life in London
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Listed as first edition
Topics: Clubs, Hotels, traverns, etc, Bars (Drinking establishments), Literary landmarks
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Timbs, John, 1801-1875; Timbs, John, 1801-1875. Clubs and club life in London
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Topics: Clubs, Hotels, traverns, etc, Bars (Drinking establishments), Literary landmarks
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Topics: Clubs, Taverns (Inns), Literary landmarks
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Topics: Literary landmarks -- England London, London (England) -- Clubs, London (England) -- Hotels,...
32 pages of advertising are in back
Topic: Literary landmarks
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Topics: Literary landmarks -- England London, London (England) -- Clubs, London (England) -- Hotels,...
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967
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Introductory chapter.--An arrival in Bohemia.--Old and new Chelsea.--A Chelsea evening.--In the studios.--The country in Bohemia.--Old and new Soho.--Coffee-houses about Soho.--The bookshops of Bohemia.--Old and new Fleet street.--Some newspapers and magazines.--Ways and means.--Talking, drinking and smoking.--Old and new Hampstead.--A wedding in Bohemia.--A novelist.--A painter.--A gipsy poet.--Conclusion
Introductory chapter.--An arrival in Bohemia.--Old and new Chelsea.--A Chelsea evening.--In the studios.--The country in Bohemia.--Old and new Soho.--Coffee-houses about Soho.--The bookshops of Bohemia.--Old and new Fleet street.--Some newspapers and magazines.--Ways and means.--Talking, drinking and smoking.--Old and new Hampstead.--A wedding in Bohemia.--A novelist.--A painter.--A gipsy poet.--Conclusion
Topic: London (England) -- Social life and customs
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Whist
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Nov 16, 2018
11/18
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Borer, Mary Cathcart, 1906-1994
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324 pages, [25] pages of plates : 24 cm
Topics: Finance -- England -- London -- History, Commerce, Finance, London (England) -- Commerce --...
Queen's University Library
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Aug 30, 2012
08/12
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St. Leger, John, Sir; Sacheverell, Henry, 1674-1724. Perils of false brethren; Collins, Anthony, 1676-1729
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Appendix (p. 42-8) comprises: State tracts, vol. 1, p. 539-40--Reflections on a late pamphlet entitled Priestcraft in perfection
Topics: Sacheverell, Henry, 1674-1724, Divine right of kings
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Jul 29, 2018
07/18
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John Timbs
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Book from Project Gutenberg: Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Topics: Clubs -- England -- London, London (England) -- Social life and customs, Literary landmarks --...
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41146
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07/18
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Book from Project Gutenberg: Club Life of London, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Topics: Clubs -- England -- London, DA, London (England) -- Social life and customs, Literary landmarks --...
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41516
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Topic: Taverns (Inns)
Topic: London (England) -- Hotels, taverns, etc
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Feb 10, 2012
02/12
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Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles); McManus, Blanche, b. 1869, binding designer
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Original navy blue publisher's cloth; pictorial cover stamped in gold and color; binding designed by Blanche McManus
Topics: Publishers' bindings, Hotels
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01/19
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British Pathé
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Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. London MS Balloon seller at Tower Hill with some children around her. Various shots, three mounted policemen leading procession, then the Girl's Brigade Band on Children's Day in the City of London Festival, the route went from Aldersgate to Tower Hill. Gaily decorated floats passing by, based on the theme of London Town. Children dressed in various costumes adorn the floats. CU Sign for the Christopher Wren School -...
Topics: Youtube, video, Entertainment, Tower, Lord, BritishPathe, footage, Houses, dress, documentary,...
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Mar 16, 2016
03/16
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Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873
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"Many of the tokens comprised in the following list were issued by the keepers of coffee-houses and taverns"--Pref
Topics: Tokens, Hotels
Sometimes attributed to John Chamberlayne, however his birth date of 1666 makes this attribution questionable. Cf. Arents
Topics: Coffee, Tea, Cacao, Tobacco, Sambucus, Juniperus
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36 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Topics: Tea -- Early works to 1800, Chocolate, Beer, Coffee, Chocolate, Tea
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Aug 25, 2015
08/15
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Feltham, John. n 87942431
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Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873
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Topics: Tokens, Hotels
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Kent, and the Canterbury tales.--Shakespear's London--Coffee-houses and clubs of London--The Jews in England--Pictures of English highroads--Autumn on the English lakes
Topic: England -- Description and travel
Kent, and the Canterbury tales.--Shakespeare's London.--Coffee-houses and clubs of London.--The Jews in England.--Pictures of English highroads.--Autumn on the English lakes
Topic: England -- Description and travel
CONTENTS. - A model village of homes. - An English half-holiday. - Stage-coaching in England. - Coffee-houses in Great-Britain. - The Sunday-school centenary, London. - A fete of the French republic. - A visit to the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago. - The Great Lakes and the Mediterranean. - Spanish rule, and its end, in Cuba. - A college vacation at the front. - How fine papers are manufactured. - Entertainments for the people. - The flags of all nations
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Jordan Hermant on the movie Pump Up the Volume as proto-file sharing and blogging. Jo Guldi on the 18th century Open Roads Movement as proto-net neutrality. Michelle Parise on Prince song titles as proto-texts. Colin Newell and Kristin Haring on CB radio/HAM radio as proto-social media. Richard Sennett on class behavior in London coffee houses as proto-status updates. Anaïs Saint-Jude on 17th C information overload as proto-present day information overload.
Topics: CBC, Spark, CBC Spark, Nora Young
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Jul 26, 2018
07/18
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Great Britain
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93 pages ; (8vo)
Topic: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
CONTENTS. - A model village of homes. - An English half-holiday. - Stage- coaching in England. - Coffee-houses in Great-Britain. - The Sunday-school centenary, London. - A fete of the French republic. - A visit to the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago. - The Great Lakes and the Mediterranean. - Spanish rule, and its end, in Cuba. - A college vacation at the front. - How fine papers are manufactured. - Entertainments for the people. - The flags of all nations
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The architecture of A. Palladio, in four books : containing, a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building : as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights : to which are added several notes and observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before
Dec 4, 2012
12/12
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Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580; Leoni, Giacomo, ca. 1686-1746; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652; Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903, donor. DSI; Dubois, Nicholas, ca. 1665-1735
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statement of responsibility: revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni ... ; translated from the Italian original
Topic: Architecture
This is the third chapter in Macaulay's great History of England from the Accession of James II.In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state of the nation in 1685.He discusses the population, the revenue, the military system, the roads, the inns, the coaches, the great cities and, of course London, its coffee houses and first experiments in street lighting. An interesting diversion from Macaulays's usual obsession with politics but worry not, he still manages to crowbar some political intriguing...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, macaulay, victorian, literature, whigs
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Rob~Songbear~Walters and his wife, Clayaura team for a magical folk performance of Songbear's original songs. Rob~Songbear~Walters began writing and recording in the early seventies when he was contracted through London Records. After raising his family he began playing the coffee houses throughout the Tri-State area when Negril Studio Music Label brought him in to record "Universal Visions" CD released in 1999. In 2000 Songbear met Clayaura and a loving relationship developed into a...
Topic: Songbear and Clayaura
節目：政政經經悶到抽筋講到就講唔想多講人多唔講無人唔講上流唔到絕對離地Bourgeois Bohemian 頻道 (第十一集) 日期：2014 年 05 月 15 日（星期四) 主持：Jacky Fung、Dick 主題：由18世紀鄂圖曼的咖啡室說到星巴克 第一節：18世紀鄂圖曼的咖啡室 第二節：為什麼星巴克是星巴克 參考書藉： 1)Sajdi, D. (2007). Ottoman tulips, Ottoman coffee: Leisure and lifestyle in the eighteenth century. London: Tauris...
Topics: ragazine, 政政經經
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11/11
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Fox, Edward, 1829?-1862
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A singer songwriter since age 10, Eve has written hundreds of songs touching many facets of the human experience! From London, England, she grew up in an Anglo-German household and was exposed to an eclectic mix of music, literature, art and European culture. Her brother is the guitarist and powerhouse behind indie-band 'King Prawn', and their father is the poet and playwright John Hands. Working with local theater groups, she mastered voice control and later trained her singing voice with...
Topic: EVE Hands
Steven Johnson finds that throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. He tracks the history of ideas with the birth of coffee houses, and their role in shaping our world. Watch Steven Johnson, international bestselling author, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full edit here: https://youtu.be/ReHhAd6vEfE Subscribe to our...
Topics: The RSA, Great Britain, London, Youtube, where do ideas come from, british enlighenment, american...
As an interpreter in a world filled with waif Versace clad wannabe models and Manhattan egos, the translation is coming through just fine. It's all fluff baby.... While playing lead guitar and writing tunes for a Chicago based power pop band, Johnathan Kuss's credibility as an interpreter was solidified when 20th Century Fox included one of Johnathan's songs on the 2000 , "Dude, Where's My Car?" Motion Picture and Soundtrack (London-Sire Records). Since then, Johnathan has moved on to...
Topic: johnathan kuss
LibriVox recording of The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy, writing in 1902, creates in sparkling, uncluttered prose a panoramic canvas of Anne and her times. In the first of the two volumes,...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Jonathan Swift, Louis XIV, queen anne, political science, duke of...
Irish folk group who touches on the early 1960's and 1970's feel of such greats as Dylan and Guthrie, adding a keen sense of humor and style all their own. NEWS: Mad Hannans Go Guinness The Mad Hannans, who started out playing their quirky pub rock in Marin coffee houses and bars, are moving up in the world. Sunday, they'll be on the main stage at Guinness Fleadh (pronounced "flah"), the huge Irish outdoor festival at Spartan Stadium in San Jose. The Mad Hannans, brothers Jerry and...
Topic: Jerry Hannan
Michael James has experienced statewide success with his new release, Through The Rain. This single has created a stir in Hawaii due to its consistent radio airplay on KONI 104.7 FM. Michael has been playing local clubs and coffee houses for the past ten years. This experience has molded his showmanship and live act to compliment his debut album Through The Rain. Michael James' music is Elvis meets Elton, says Clark Neiborschnig of Maui Time Magazine. He goes on to say, He combines an emotional...
Topic: Michael James
New England-based songwriter Jason Spooner discovered the family stereo at a very early age and never looked back. He attributes his musical roots to his father's secret stash of 8 track tapes. "My parents always stayed visibly hip when it came to the records they displayed publicly...disco in the 70's, pop in the 80's.", says Jason. "It was finding my dad's collection of tunes early on that really set me off on the right foot." Whether it was the intricate songsmanship of...
Topic: Jason Spooner
News 1. I guess at farmclub.com bands were cheating to get votes, so every band's votes were erased. If you want to head over there and vote for Channel Six, that would be great. here's the link http://www.farmclub.com/listen/artisthome/static/15267.html thanks for everyone who takes the time. And remember, you can vote once a day!! 2. Anyone who wants to join Channel Six's news via e-mail, just send your e-mail address to bone_merrow@hotmail.com. BIO It all started in Grade 9 with Jason Merrow...
Topic: Channel Six
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Jan 26, 2019
01/19
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British Pathé
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No titles. Comedian Jock Walker. Pathe Studio, London. On a set dressed to look like an inn or pub we see Jock Walker sitting at a table with another man. The barman brings them both a pint and sits down to listen to Jock telling jokes. He talks about Scotch collie dog who was given a penny each day and would go into the village to get a roll for his breakfast. The dog stopped going to the kennel for five days, then went with all the pennies and bought back seven rolls for sixpence. Then Jock...
Topics: Youtube, video, Entertainment, jokes, pubs, houses, public, entertainment, PSM 24 B, footage, Lang,...
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No Hiding Place Reel 2 Reel 1 available here Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Summary Presents a drama about a Negro family which moves into an all-white northern suburban community, telling how a white housewife displays courage and understanding when some of her neighbors are panicked into selling their homes. Explains how unscrupulous real estate agents besiege neighbors of a new Negro resident, urging them to sell before the value of...
Topic: Series: No Hiding Place
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Why is Hebden Bridge the lesbian capital?. Certain areas of the UK have greater concentrations of gay people and lesbians living there. But why? Manchester. London. Brighton. Some places in the UK are known for having a disproportionately high number of gay and lesbian people. Such concentrations can be visible in the form of rainbow signs on bars or shops in places like Old Compton Street in London and Manchester's Canal Street. Bigger cities are often assumed to be more tolerant...
Topic: Hebden Bridge . lesbian capital.uk
